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Create PDF Booklet
Function: Reorders the pages of a PDF so that you can print it as a booklet.
Author: Christoph Vogelbusch
Requires: PDFs in portrait format.
Input: (Files/Folders) Needs PDF-files as input.
Options: You can optionally try to preserve paper format. This means the portrait page is turned to landscape and two pages are fitted onto the landscaped one. For pages that are already landscape this option is ignored.
Output: (Files/Folders) PDF with ladscape pages, two orignal pages per resulting page, ordered binding in the middle.
Notes: Print the resulting PDF with Layout setting:”Two-Sided: short-edged binding” or print the odd pages and turn them manually to print the even pages. Installer includes a PDF Service for printing PDFs directly with this action.
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Worked like a charm! You’re a lifesaver! (Well, at the very least, a time saver!)
Thanks!
Comment by E Schrad — February 1, 2007 @ 2:16 pm
Thanks, but this didn’t work for me. :-( (yet?) I’m no tech wiz, but I got the script installed, opened the PDF I wanted to booklet-ize, clicked Print, then under PDF, clicked “Create Booklet.” It then gives me an error warning saying, “Sorry, but you can’t save from the print menu. Instead, click File>Save” Any idea what I could do?
Comment by J Newton — November 1, 2007 @ 8:46 pm
For those who is seeking a similar tool but don’t own a Mac: here is a free online tool for creating PDF booklets.
Comment by Slava — February 21, 2008 @ 7:32 pm
I had the same experience as J Newton. Does anyone have an answer?
Comment by Judith Repke — March 4, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
This also worked beautifully for me! If you’re having trouble maybe you’re not doing it right. Try this: 1- Open Automator 2 - Drag the PDF document you want to Bookletize to the workflow window 3 - On the Library pane, click on PDF to view the available actions. 4 - Drag the ‘PDF - Create booklet’ action to the Workflow window AFTER the File action created when you dropped the PDF file (Get Specified Finder Items) 5 - Click the ‘Run’ button. 6 - Look for the new PDF file in the directory specified as Output. It will be named as ‘Booklet’ followed by the name of the original PDF.
Comment by L Lopez — March 12, 2008 @ 4:07 pm